acetileno

Esperanto

Etymology

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French acétylèneder.

Esperanto acetileno

From French acétylène.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /at͡setiˈleno/

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• Rhymes: -eno
• Syllabification: a‧ce‧ti‧le‧no

Noun

acetileno (accusative singular acetilenon, plural acetilenoj, accusative plural acetilenojn)

1. (organic chemistry) acetylene

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• acetyleno (obsolete)

Etymology

From French acétylène, coined by French chemist Marcellin Berthelot, from acetyl, from Latin acētum (“vinegar”) (from aceō (“to be sour”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp”)) + Ancient Greek ὕλη (húlē, “substance”) (from Proto-Indo-European *sew- (“juice, liquid”)).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.se.t͡ʃiˈlẽ.nu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.se.t͡ʃiˈlẽ.nu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.se.t͡ʃiˈle.no/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.sɨ.tiˈle.nu/

Noun

acetileno m (plural acetilenos)

1. (organic chemistry) acetylene

   Synonym: etino

Hypernyms

• alcino, hidrocarboneto

Further reading

• “acetileno”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “acetileno”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aθetiˈleno/ [a.θe.t̪iˈle.no] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• IPA^(key): /asetiˈleno/ [a.se.t̪iˈle.no] (Latin America, Philippines)

• Audio (Venezuela):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eno
• Syllabification: a‧ce‧ti‧le‧no

Noun

acetileno m (plural acetilenos)

1. (organic chemistry) acetylene

   Synonym: etino

Related terms

• acetilo

Further reading

• “acetileno”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025